SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

@doctorow nice to see that some things never change. I'm not the only one with a living room like this, am I?

@Robin hey there. Looks lie we have a lot of overlap. I may set up an account over at theres.life, but I don't know that I want to have multiple accounts to keep up with.

If you're looking, you could see if there's an ACNA Anglican church near you. Reformed, historical, Bible teaching. It's been refreshing for us.

So...you know from experience how much wood a wood chuck could chuck, eh?

Words : Look look, a green new deal! It's got a color in the name! Pretty colors!

Actions: House Democrats Block Request to Vote on Bill to Stop Infanticide For a Third Time

https://www.lifenews.com/2019/02/08/house-democrats-block-request-to-vote-on-bill-to-stop-infanticide-for-a-third-time/

#uspol #democrats

Women Earn 57% of U.S. Bachelor’s Degrees—For 18th Straight Year

#gendergap

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/women-earn-57-us-bachelors-degrees-18th-straight-year

@doctorow the article I read about this stated that taxes were less for the vast majority of tax players, but the withholding calculation changed, so that someone may have taken home more money every month, but they end up having to write a check to pay for their lower tax bill.

People are just bad at math.

I think people would vote for different tax policy if they were good at math, but also if there was no withholding. These folks, it seems, are keeping more of their money, but dislike that they are more aware of the portion they have to pay to Washington.

@masterofthetiger@theres.life I think it can really vary. One complexity is that we're in relationship with the Church and with God, so there's things we do as a community. When we join into a family, whether through birth or adoption, there's rituals there - we give names, we celebrate. The Christian equivalent is a baptism, right? I daily have dinner with my family, the equivalent is the Lord's supper?

As part of the body of Christ, not just an individual with an individual relationship with God, many rituals are fitting into the way _WE_ do things, rather than just how _I_ do things.

Being a dad has changed my view on this too, I think.

I'm not sure how my kids could say they're in a relationship with me if don't have a pattern of doing certain things together; story time and prayer time at night, dinner together as a family, pancake Sundays.

As Christians, with God communicating himself as our Father, we're part of one family, certainly our rituals have individual qualities, but are also based on the family traditions.

@masterofthetiger@theres.life
I grew up in the context of rejecting "ritual" which often meant refusing to acknowledge that we had our own rituals.

As I've engaged more in the Anglican tradition, I've grown to appreciate that the historical rituals are packed with meaning and purpose, whereas the less historical tradition in which I was raised had patterns (rituals) but it was with less significance and meaning.

I look at relationships differently now. Eating together as a family is a ritual we have that builds the relationships - avoiding the ritual in favor of the relationship doesn't make sense. If the relational meaning was lost the goal would be to restore that to the ritual rather than ditch eating together, unless we replaced that with a new pattern (ritual).

The Democrat party is the pro Infanticide party.

https://www.lifenews.com/2019/02/07/house-democrats-again-block-request-to-vote-on-bill-to-stop-infanticide/

@masterofthetiger@theres.life I've grown to increasingly appreciate rituals. Rituals are an essential part of life and relationships. Without rituals, people talk about interacting with their spouse like ships passing in the night. It's not a positive commentary. The way we sleep, how we eat together, the way we end our phone calls, all of these are rituals.

Certainly rituals can continue between two people who one day look at each other and don't recognize the other person anymore. Equally so, without some rituals at some level of formality, there's not much of a relationship worth salvaging, because relationships are expressed through ritual.

My concern is throwing out the expression of relationship (ritual) in favor of relationship because there are some who lean on ritual without a relationship behind it.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Encased In Carbonite Until Next Court Session

#whereisruth

https://babylonbee.com/news/ruth-bader-ginsburg-encased-in-carbonite-until-next-court-session

'Republicans Are Brainwashed,' Democrats Dutifully Chant While Clad In Identical White Uniforms

https://babylonbee.com/news/republicans-are-brainwashed-democrats-dutifully-chant-while-clad-in-matching-uniforms

@jacknationalist@social.quodverum.com I boosted though I do recognize that the US government and state governments do assist financially with foster care and domestic adoption. Yet it's taking/preventing the children's lives that is the unifying political position on the left.

No evidence, but AP claims an answer to #whereisruth - no photos allowed, no sources are cited, but evidently she attended a hagiography of herself yesterday.

https://www.apnews.com/b94fea4b4a2a408fabcf756da790ff27